Join us for the inaugural year of Science + Literature public programs

An inaugural selection of the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature program, The Radiant Lives of Animals by Linda Hogan is a hybrid work weaving together prose, poetry, and illustrations. The collection connects Indigenous understandings and Hogan’s own relationships to animals and the natural world, a reminder for readers to pause, and reflect.

Join Linda Hogan in conversation with Rena Priest, Washington State Poet Laureate, on Native storytelling, and writing the environment.

Presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures, and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

In the Field by Rachel Pastan tells the story of a female geneticist—an outsider in her pursuits, and sexuality—in the mid-twentieth century. The novel is an inaugural selection of the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature program, inspired by the life of Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock.

Join Rachel Pastan in conversation with author and 5 Under 35 honoree Weike Wang (Chemistry; Joan Is Okay) on the intersection of science and literature.

Presented in partnership with the Mechanics’ Hall, and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Did you know the kissing bug has infected over 300,000 Latin Americans living in the US?

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández is an inaugural title selection of the National Book Foundation’s new Science + Literature program, celebrating work that deepens readers’ understanding of science and technology, and the diversity of voices in scientific writing. Part investigative science journalism, part memoir, The Kissing Bug follows Hernández’s journey to better understand Chagas, an infectious disease that disproportionately affects the Latinx community.

Join Daisy Hernández and Dr. Jessica L. Ware, the American Museum of Natural History’s Entomology Curator, for a conversation on the personal and political of science research, and access.

Presented in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History, and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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